Master Gu Yi

On the dead-silent, empty streets of New York, the two stood roughly ten meters apart, each sizing the other up with a guarded gaze.

Gu Yi?

After hearing the young woman’s introduction, Kyle remained cold and expressionless, yet a storm had already erupted in his heart. His muscles involuntarily tensed as he entered an unprecedented state of high alert.

Master Gu Yi, the strongest being on Marvel’s Earth at this stage—a woman who had lived for centuries and the Sorcerer Supreme who had glimpsed the truths of Cosmic Magic!

Almost instinctively, the symbiotic Venom on Kyle was equally wary. His suit, hat, sunglasses, and everything else transformed at once, twisting from black liquid threads into the fully covered Night Suit. A bloody aura of slaughter and savagery spread outward.

With a smile at the corner of her lips, Gu Yi looked at Kyle in combat mode and softly reassured him, "General Kyle, I mean you no harm."

"What did you do? Where is this?" Kyle asked coldly, surveying the streets and buildings around him that seemed both real and unreal.

"This is merely the Mirror Dimension of Earth’s space. Like looking into a mirror—the world reflected within it," Gu Yi explained.

"Shifting spatial dimensions, this…" Kyle frowned. Though he had long known that Master Gu Yi could wield time and space through magic, only after experiencing it himself did he understand how terrifying that truly was.

For the first time, he had lost control of the overall situation. Running was not an option, fighting was not an option; he could only wait for her to reveal her purpose.

After all, someone without the corresponding magical abilities could flee to the end of the Mirror Dimension and still never return to the real world.

And fighting Master Gu Yi—Kyle believed that even certain higher-dimensional races claiming to be gods would be knocked flat by the woman before him within minutes.

Earth’s strongest native guardian—did they think that was a joke?!

"May I ask what Master Gu Yi wants with me?" Kyle took a deep breath, suppressing the intense unease in his heart as if he were facing a formidable enemy.

"I’ve wanted to meet you for some time. I happened to learn that you were free today, so I came directly," Gu Yi said softly. Her unhurried words seemed to carry a trace of magic, inexplicably dispelling the vigilance and unease in others’ hearts.

"Meet me?" Kyle froze for a moment. When had he ever caught that old woman’s attention?

Gu Yi stared at him and asked with a smile, "What did you do to the Tesseract?"

"The Tesseract?" Kyle was slightly surprised as he considered his answer. "Does the sorcerer mean that cube-like object Hydra used to create Infinite Energy? After I salvaged it from the seafloor beneath the battlefield, I handed it directly over to the military base. It should be in an American military base laboratory now."

"Then have you seen anything similar, especially the gem embedded within it?" Gu Yi asked. Her left hand remained behind her back, while her right palm lifted and turned upward. A jeweled necklace appeared out of thin air in her palm.

The necklace hung down around her slender hand. At its lowest point was an eye-shaped metal pendant, its pupil an embedded green gem radiating a dim green glow.

"What is that? A magical artifact of yours? It actually glows." Kyle asked back without changing his expression.

In truth, the instant he saw the eye-shaped necklace, he knew it was no ordinary object—the Eye of Agamotto, the Time Stone!

Like the Space Stone extracted from the core of the Tesseract, it was one of the Six Original Stones of the universe!

"You haven’t seen a similar glowing gem?"

Gu Yi pressed on. This time, Kyle appeared somewhat impatient and shook his head. "I said I haven’t seen one, so I haven’t seen one. I did see mountains of gems stockpiled in Germany’s military warehouses, but none that could glow on their own like this."

That was not a lie. He truly had never seen the Space Stone, because after it had been directly converted into a card, it had remained in Card Space and had never been materialized.

"I understand." Gu Yi gave Kyle a deep look, then turned over her right hand. The eye-shaped pendant necklace in her palm vanished into thin air once again.

Kyle looked somewhat regretfully at Gu Yi’s empty hand and said, "I wonder if Master Gu Yi would name a price for that magical artifact. I have a friend who loves collecting rare and unusual treasures."

This time, Gu Yi was the one who paused. She shook her head and said, "This item is priceless. It belongs only to one fated to possess it."

"Then do I count as one of the fated? How about you give that magical artifact to me…" Kyle pushed his luck.

He understood now. Gu Yi had sensed the Space Stone disappearing from the Tesseract and had come specifically to investigate.

And indeed, as Earth’s Guardian, she was kind at heart and only acted against foreign invasions dangerous enough to threaten Earth’s very foundations. There was no need for her to target a War Hero who was "defending his country" and "weak and ignorant."

"You are far too bloodthirsty. You are absolutely not one of the fated." Gu Yi refused, turning around as though she were about to leave.

Kyle grew anxious at the sight and hurriedly chased after her, trying to keep her there. "Don’t go! Master Gu Yi, it doesn’t matter whether you give me the artifact or not. How about teaching me some magic? Or I can invite you, on behalf of the country, to afternoon tea before you leave?"

Just as Kyle was about to enter within three meters of Gu Yi’s back—the range for drawing cards and probing—Gu Yi casually waved her hand. Fine, blazing sparks spun into a wheel, tearing open a circular exit in the space before her.

Gu Yi stepped directly into the dazzling, wondrous ring of sparks, and the back of her white robe swiftly disappeared within it.

"Wait!" Kyle narrowed his eyes, suddenly accelerated, and leaped after her through the ring of sparks…

On a bustling New York street.

"Fuck!" An office worker carrying a briefcase and newspaper hurried along. He had just lowered his head to check his watch when a black figure suddenly sprang out in front of him, scaring him into falling flat on his backside. Everything in his hands scattered across the ground.

"Who the hell was that?" The suited man cursed as he looked up. When he saw the mysterious figure in the familiar, iconic Night Suit looking around, his eyes instinctively shifted to the New York Times spread across the pavement.

The newspaper’s massive front-page headline featured a cold young man standing before the conquered German presidential palace. The muscular figure in black armor looked exactly like the person who had suddenly appeared on the street.

After one second of stunned silence, the suited man let out an excited, pig-slaughtering shriek: "It’s Major General Kyle! The real one!!"

"Hm?" Kyle had just emerged from the Mirror Dimension and had yet to react. After the brief electric sensation of passing through space, he realized with alarm that he had returned to the bustling streets of New York, surrounded by countless pedestrians.

As the suited man’s shout rang out, the entire street fell silent. Countless surprised and fervent gazes focused on Kyle at the intersection.

This is bad! That was Kyle’s first thought. He also realized that he was still in the fully covered Venom Suit form from the battlefield…

His second thought was:

Old woman, I’ll remember this!

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